A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c48.s2.16

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ber of minor gems (6cd–8); names of the major gems again (9–13); diamonds (vajra), their origin, varieties, blemishes, characteristics and properties, their sizes and value, their assessment and examination (14–50); pearls (mauktika), their origin, varieties, characteristics and properties (51–66); the properties of diamonds, their purification and killing (67–88); the characteristics and properties of coral (pravāla) (89–93), pearls (94–99), rubies (māṇikya) (100–104), emeralds (marakata) (105–108), vaidūrya (109–114), gomeda (115–119), sapphires (nīla) (120–125), and puṣparāga (126–130); generalities on the gems (131–132); the five most excellent gems (pañcaratna): puṣparāga, mahānīla, padmarāga (ruby), vajra and marakata (133); the eight gems which are called maṇi: vaikrānta, sūryakānta, hīraka (diamond), mauktika, maṇi, candrakānta, rājavarta, and garuḍodgāraka (emerald) (134); the stones related to sphaṭika: gomeda, tārkṣya (emerald), vājaya (= vaidūrya), devejyamani (= puṣparāga), indu (= candrakānta), and taraṇika (= sūryakānta) (135); the names and properties of sphaṭika (136–138), sūryakānta (139–141), candrakānta (142–144), rājāvarta (145–147), and peroja (148–149); the purification and killing of the ratnas and uparatnas (550–154); some generalities on gems (155–159); vaikrānta, its origin, varieties, properties, purification, killing, the extraction of its essence (155–174ab); some generalities on the uparatnas (174cd–176); the connections between the gems and the quarters of the sky, followed by their connections with the grahas (177–178); the liquefaction of gems (179–180); the extraction of the essence from saurāṣṭrī (181–182ab) and sasyaka (182cd–184).